09/27/2010

Amanuensis Monday: Obituary of Catherine Y. Kinmond

Portland Evening News, Tuesday, February 24, 1931, page 14 [Maine]

MRS. CATHERINE Y. KINMOND

WESTBROOK--The funeral services for Mrs. Catherine Y. Kinmond, 86, who died Monday at her home on Pierce Street, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 from the funeral parlors of H.A.G. Hay, Main Street. Mrs. Kinmond made her home with her son John Y. Kinmond, and was ill but a very short while before her death. She was born in Brechin, Scotland, and had resided in Westbrook almost 50 years. Being a member of the Westbrook Congregational Church. She leaves beside her son John, two other sons: James Kinmond of this city and Ernest Kinmond of Three Rivers, Mass.; also three daughters, Mrs. Annie K. Smith and Mrs. Veramus (sic) C. Hanson of the city, and Mrs. Betsy J. High of Methuen, Mass.

Portland Evening News, Thursday, February 26, 1931, page 16

MRS. CATHERINE Y. KINMOND

WESTBROOK--Funeral services were held Wednesday for Mrs. Catherine Y. Kinmond, wife of Ernest F. Kinmond from 795 Maine street, the Rev. Ray Gibbons of the Westbrook Congregational Church officiating. Six grandsons were bearers, these being Ernest F. High of Methuen, Mass., Harold Kinmond of Three Rivers, Mass., Robert Smith, Ernest F. Kinmond, Philip Hanson and Roland Pinkham of this city.

N.B. It is interesting that had I not continued reading I would have missed the second notice which ties my Pinkhams to this woman. Her daughter, my great-grandmother, had predeceased her and was not mentioned in her obituary.